The win4lin installer still seems to have some silly features:-
1) The other day I fired up installer 3.0.3 and downloaded the latest
installer 3.0.4. Though 3.0.4 ran the first time (ie straight after
downloading) OK, it put itself in /var/win4lin/installer_tmp leaving the
old version in /usr/bin. (Which of course took precedence until renamed)
2) More significantly, believing that an update of Win4lin from 5.2.4d-d
was imminent, when the installer has said a Win4lin upgrade is available
I've taken it - only to be landed with a download of 5.2.4 again!
I've done this 3 times now with the same results. I've copied my
original copy of 5.2.4 back from 'a safe place' and touched it, but
still got the same behaviour. (How _does_ the installer check which
version is already installed, so I can stop this spurious download)
3) Of course all this is to try to get round another silly problem - we
don't know (eg via this group) when a new package is released or/and
what's changed in it - and the installer doesn't deign to tell us what
it wants to download... So we have to let it start on a 4Mb download and
then look at the filename!
Bob
(I'm sure it makes slightly more sense if you run a bog-standard Redhat
system and/or have a fast ISDN line on a 7/24 connection.
But the rest of us would like to have more control over our lives -
that's why we're using Linux).
--
robert w hall
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